On Jan 7, 2008 2:21 PM, Brian Foddy <<a href="mailto:bfoddy@visi.com">bfoddy@visi.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sunday 06 January 2008, Mike Heffner wrote:<br>> Is there a way to configure LiveTV so that it does not have to disk<br>> buffer the stream?</div></blockquote><div><br>You can edit the menus to replace the live TV button with mplayer. Check the archives, it's been discussed before.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> I have an HD card and my disk is unable to support<br>> buffering the stream at the HD rate (it jumps/skips) but I'd like to be
<br>> able to watch HD channels without the ability to time-shift/etc.<br><br></div>But for HD, you need to figure 6-7 GB per hour.</blockquote><div><br>7GB per hour is only 2MB per second. If your disk can handle writing and reading simultaneously at that speed there is something wrong. Disk should not be a bottleneck for a single tuner MythTV system, even with HD.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div><div></div></div>